The phrase "strongest desires" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person's powerful and meaningful wants or wishes. For example, "She realized that her strongest desires were to be happy and to make a difference in the world."
"The creature stood up, this magical moment, and one of the strongest desires we'd given him was to find food.
For 133 years, the circus has tapped into America's deepest fears and strongest desires, and audiences have often sought out the show in wartime.
Thus the axioms of decision theory include constraints on an agent's overall preferences (such as completeness and transitivity) that might be violated even by agents who are striving to satisfy their currently strongest desires.
These include such notions as best judgments, strongest desires, intentions, the ability to promise oneself rewards, the distinction between more and less episodic motivational factors, and questions about the potential conflict between best judgment and motivational desires.
Because, on Mele's view, evaluations of things one desires can be out of line with the strength of one's desires for those things, one's best judgments sometimes are in disharmony with one's strongest desires (desires that do appear to play a causal role in action) (1995, p. 25).
In addition, many who hold this view suggest that the principles of rationality that intentional states must meet are quite minimal, and comprise at most a set of constraints on the contours of our theory of mind, such as that people can't, in general, hold (obviously) contradictory beliefs, or act against their (sincerely avowed) strongest desires (Loar 1981).
"My strongest desire is to get back to writing novels," he said.
"I had the strongest desire to keep seeing his face," Mr. Morse said.
Must you capitulate to your strongest desire?
For this reason, self-satisfaction should not be confused with satisfying one's strongest desire.
What if, like most children, her strongest desire is to let go, be playful?
